Friday, December 3, 2010

Easy-to-Do Reminders in Using Christmas lights

By Jim Rice


Christmas is not just an ordinary event; it's the time for sharing, and children's wonderful vacation of the year. Obviously, you don't want to have any trouble during Christmas, so make sure your decorations won't give one. There are guidelines to be followed in order to protect your family from any harm. First thing to be remembered, always make sure all your Christmas lights are not turned on when nobody is not at home, as leaving your light display may cause unintentional fire and may burn your property to ashes. Also, be ready at all times for accidents occur suddenly, make sure you have smoke detectors and fire extinguishers on standby.

Every member of your family must be informed of the emergency exits of your house for faster escape if anything goes wrong. Next, would be to replace light bulbs that are either dead or have burnt out marks as soon as you noticed it, for the interfered flow of the electric current may affect the parallel connection of the Christmas lights.

A bulb that is not functioning well in a strand can hinder the good flow of the electricity. It is very crucial to change a light bulb more willingly than just take it off because little kids might put their fingers in the vacant light socket. Make sure to put out the burnt out light with the one which has the correct size and according to watts.

If you want to beautify the front yard of your home with the Christmas tree that are lights on, follow the similar procedure you do in trees indoors. Never place on metal trees the electric lights.M ake sure that the bulbs are kept from the trees out that are dried by positioning them in water but also don't allow anything to be closely to water. Fasten the trees so that no children rushing running or flurry storm could fell them down.

If you would use a long extension cord instead of using several short cords. Avoid placing cords near moist and hot place and even metal. Oven, heaters and fireplaces too are just some examples. Keep in mind to avoid putting these cords where people are walking. Instead position it adjacent to a wall. More than that don't try forcing into a two-hole outlet a three split plug.

Never run your extension cords from the inside of your home to your display in outdoor. More than that, if you try to connect holiday lights to outlets that are indoors, it will take so much extension cord that could have more places to wear out. In addition to that, when you try to run an extension cords under your carpet, near to furniture or even through passageway, the danger of wear and tear is higher because these are the places where anyone could step into it. So hire an electrician to help you install outdoor outlets.

Always remind your children not to touch a turned on lights display. Show them the right thing to do, before touching the bulbs. Make sure it is switched off and pull off the plug. Then, never let your children get near to places with those light bulbs lighten up.

Keep the displayed lights far from moist area. Locate plugs, outlets and cords or even other equipment in protected places which stays dry when there is storm.




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